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AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support the G5 instance family in the South America (São Paulo region
Amazon SageMaker Studio launched support for the ml.G5 GPU instance family in the South America region (São Paulo). Customers using ml.G5 instances in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks can leverage up to 3.3x faster performance for machine learning training compared to ml.G4dn instances. This makes them a high performance and cost-efficient solution for interactive model training […]
GCP – How Wayfair uses BeyondCorp Enterprise with Microsoft Intune to build a Zero Trust environment
A Zero Trust approach to security can help you safeguard your users, devices, apps and data. Using Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp Enterprise, organizations can enforce strict, context-aware access controls with authentication and authorization for a variety of devices, anywhere to help strengthen their security posture. The ability to craft rich, contextual access policies depends on the […]
GCP – Build intelligent applications with Neo4j Knowledge Graphs and Google Cloud generative AI
In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to use two technologies together: The generative AI functionality in Google Cloud Vertex AI, an ML development platform, and Neo4j, a graph database. Together these technologies can be used to build and interact with knowledge graphs. The code underlying this blog post is available here. […]
GCP – Study by Forrester: The industry’s take on 5G networks on cloud
The promise of 5G is captivating: innovative use cases, lower latency, greater bandwidth, and faster mobility. However, we understand that for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), the shift to 5G standalone (SA) core on cloud affects not only network operations, but also go-to-market and service delivery to consumers and enterprise customers. For CSPs that have implemented […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Ternary turns customers’ cloud-spending pain into gain
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. How can your company scale profitably in the cloud while spending to plan? And what do you do when your company’s cloud bill spikes unexpectedly? Ternary securely ingests, retains, and queries cloud billing data on […]
GCP – How to better manage customer identities to support an engaging ecommerce user experience
One of the fundamental questions that retailers constantly ask themselves is how well they know their customers and how they can build deeper relationships. Knowing who their customers are can have a direct impact on improving customer engagement, which can lead to increased conversion rates, customer loyalty, lifetime value, and higher return on marketing spend. […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role
AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. […]
AWS – AWS launches a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2C6i, M6i, R6i and C6gn instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect and NAT […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Starting today, you can deploy RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS. Read […]